---
name: "distccmon-text"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "distcc"
version: "3.4-16"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/distccmon-text"
---

# distccmon-text(1)

Displays current compilation jobs in text form.

## NAME

distccmon-text - Displays current compilation jobs in text form.

## SYNTAX

distccmon-text \[DELAY\]

## DESCRIPTION

Displays current compilation jobs in text form.  distccmon-text must be run on the client machine, with the same setting for  *DISTCC\_DIR* (or home directory)  as the user running the distcc client.

## OPTIONS

- **DELAY**

  repeatedly updates after *delay* (fractional) seconds.

## OUTPUT FORMAT

The output of distccmon-text contains one line for each job currently being compiled.   Each line contains the following columns:

- *PID*

  ID of the distcc client process.

- *STATE*

  Identifies the phase of operation.  In order these may be "Startup", "Blocked", "Connected", "Preprocess", "Conect", "Send", "Receive" and "Done".

- *FILE*

  The input filename, if known.

- *HOST\[SLOT\]*

  The compile hostname.  May be followed in square brackets by the slot index for that host.

When a delay is specified, each block of output is terminated by a blank line.

## EXAMPLES

To display currently active jobs (updated every second):

-

  distccmon-text 1

To display the status once:

-

  distccmon-text

## AUTHORS

distcc  was  written  by Martin Pool \<mbp@sourcefrog.net\>, with the co-operation of many scholars including Wayne Davison, Frerich Raabe, Dimitri Papadopoulos  and  others  noted  in  the  NEWS  file. Please  report  bugs  to \<distcc@lists.samba.org\>.

## SEE ALSO

[distccd(1)](/distccd/1.md), [ccache(1)](/ccache/1.md), [gcc(1)](/gcc/1.md), [make(1)](/make/1.md) http://code.google.com/p/distcc/ https://ccache.dev/